Help students master key skills and competencies with Clinical Skills for Nursing

Clinical Skills for Nursing is a comprehensive web-based platform offering 1,200+ nursing skills across 14 specialty collections — including Critical Care, Emergency, Fundamentals, Health Assessment, Maternal Newborn, Mental Health, Neonatal, Oncology, Pediatric, Perioperative, and Respiratory Care — designed to give nursing students a consistent, 360-degree view of essential clinical skills. Each skill follows a standardized seven-part framework comprising a quick sheet, extended text, interactive supply list, demo video or animation, illustrations, a competency test, and a printable evaluation checklist.

Content for each skill in Clinical Skills for Nursing is drawn from trusted Elsevier texts and contributions from clinical skills experts and leading nursing organizations including the AACN, AWHONN, and ASPEN. All content is reviewed and revised annually to reflect changes in clinical practice as they arise, ensuring students and faculty are always working from current, evidence-based guidance rather than outdated protocols.

Clinical Skills for Nursing provides a consistent, intuitive format that gives all faculty and students access to the same standardized approach for teaching, performing, and evaluating clinical skills — spanning the entire nursing curriculum from fundamentals through specialty practice. This standardization reduces variability in how skills are taught across courses and instructors, supporting more uniform competency development and easier performance tracking through a built-in grade book.

Clinical Skills for Nursing uses the same professional web-based format that practicing nurses use in continuing education, helping students develop familiarity with how clinical guidance is presented and accessed in professional settings. High-definition procedure videos, animations, and detailed special patient and safety considerations give students a complete picture of each skill — including what to do when patient presentations vary from the standard scenario.

Clinical Skills for Nursing makes it easy for instructors to incorporate skills activities into lesson plans by providing ready-to-use competency tests with answers and rationales for every skill, and a grade book that automatically records student performance. Printable evaluation checklists support hands-on skills lab assessments, and the platform's Next Generation interface adds updated functionality while maintaining the trusted content nursing programs have relied on.